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- Subject: Re: Division by 0 crashes OS2/2.0
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.172138.12818@tc.cornell.edu>
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- References: <92Sep03.032755.21494@acs.ucalgary.ca> <1992Sep3.131306.13751@tc.cornell.edu> <GHENNIGA.92Sep4094517@ampere.ampere>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 17:21:38 GMT
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- In article <GHENNIGA.92Sep4094517@ampere.ampere> ghenniga@NMSU.Edu writes:
- >
- >I tried a simple program to test this out:
- >
- > PROGRAM TEST
- > X1 = 10.0
- > X2 = 2.0
- > Y1 = X1-5.0*X2
- > X3 = X1/Y1
- > STOP
- > END
- >I ran it and it gave me the following on the command line:
- >
- > run-time error M6103: MATH
- >- floating-point error: divide by 0
- >
- >This is with MS Fortran 5.1 on a 486/33...So it appears that the problem is
- >either specific to your hardware or MS Fortran 5.0. Again, this was with the
- >protected mode libraries for OS/2 1.3 running under OS/2 2.0.
-
- Thanks for trying it. I tried the same program and it crashed 2.0
- but 1.3 survives - so it seems to be specific to my hardware. I think
- I will report it to IBM. It seems weird that a simple program crashes
- 2.0 but not DOS.
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- >
- >Gary Hennigan
- >+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=++=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=
- >+= PhD Student, Computational Electromagnetics | Member: Utilitarian +=
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- >+= email: ghenniga@NMSU.Edu +=
- >
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